Cuomo is smirking at James’ scandal, but he still has worse to answer for

In September, Andrew Cuomo filed an ethics grievance towards Letitia James over her sexual harassment probe that pressured him from workplace final yr.
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Information that a high aide to state Legal professional Basic Letitia James resigned amid intercourse harassment complaints has Crew Andrew Cuomo yelping a couple of “corrupt” double-standard, since she authored the harassment report that introduced his downfall. However the ex-gov nonetheless advantages from Albany’s reluctance to confront his different, totally indeniable sins.

We’re speaking, in fact, in regards to the unnecessary COVID deaths at nursing houses within the wake of his order that they admit COVID-positive sufferers and his coverup of the true demise toll in these houses — which profited him instantly by facilitating a outstanding guide deal.

First the Legislature after which Gov. Kathy Hochul postponed critical inquiries into these outrages, although Hochul (finally, after The Submit accused her of reneging on her promise) launched an impartial probe into the nursing-home subject, albeit one that also hasn’t produced a report.

But it’s lengthy been clear that, on the behest of hospital execs, Cuomo ordered nursing and adult-care houses to confess hundreds of COVID-positive sufferers that hospitals wished to unload. As soon as the residents have been readmitted, the virus unfold like wildfire by way of these amenities.

Crew Cuomo then actively lined up the true figures on deaths within the houses, going as far as to withhold knowledge from the federal authorities.

An impartial report probing Cuomo’s $5 million guide deal concluded: “The Govt Chamber additionally efficiently coerced [the state ethics board] into expediting the approval and speeding by way of the method with very minimal due diligence.” And Cuomo loyalists managed to cover even that report till a Submit inquiry pressured them to publish it final August.

The ex-gov is plainly hoping to make a political comeback. If the state’s powers-that-be need to keep away from that, they want to ensure New York lastly will get a full, trustworthy accounting of the Cuomo scandals they’ve thus far refused to face.